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Celebor looked down at Lin, one eyebrow raised. Where in any world had she heard of a phrase like that?

"You mean that figuratively, I'm sure," he murmured, poking her in the shoulder.

Miyu watched in interest as they blushed, she wondered why they would. After all it was just a kiss, though she supposed it wouldn't be so good if the kiss, not unless it was a kiss between a Mommy and a Daddy.... or a kiss between boys.

"That sounds like a fine idea," Kara replied softly.

"Well, not always," Celebor pointed out, starting off in the direction of the valley but looking at Lin. "Sometimes - especially between people who are married, or dating - it's an actual real kiss."

He paused.

"Or sometimes between a mother and child," he amended, "but then it's just a little kiss. Usually a hug."

Feng's eyes sparkled, she couldn't forget that! After all Adonijah no doubt didn't know her yet, therefore they must visit. Also she wanted to play with Adan again and see what he was up to. She looped her arm around Ryu's arm and began to drag him off to the direction of Aliya's house.

"See you later!" she waved.

"It's amazing one arm isn't longer than the other, she's been doing that since they were Surprises," Kara commented softly watching the two.

"Later!" Shael waved back to Feng and Ryu as they broke through the trees into the large open area by the river where the houses stood.

Only this time there had been a change: instead of two houses, there were three - only the last one was not quite complete. It lacked windows, and the wrap-around porch had no roof on it yet, and the inside, if one cared to look, was completely empty.

"Well," Adonai chuckled at Kara's comment, "one could get used to anything, I suppose. And the body does tend to adjust."

Lin, curious to why Celebor stopped talking looked to where he was. Her eyes looked at the half finished house in amazement, partly because she had never seen a house half built and she didn't know that a house was being built.

"It's a new house! Who's house is that?" she asked.

Though Donovan could kind of guess, if the dancing and the not talking for a year and all that stuff didn't already give him a hint.

Kara wish she had known, then she would have brought a housewarming gift, but it was so nice that the two were together like this. It would certainly explain Shael's reaction to Adonai leaving like he had.

"Wonderful," she murmured, "I take it Ulrich has a hand in most of this?"

She knew how good he was at this, so probably....

Meanwhile the twins had made it to the front door in a few sprites, Feng knocking on the door before Ryu could say anything.

"I got it!" Adan volunteered, jumping off his chair before anyone else could even react. He darted out of the kitchen and to the front door, opening it quickly.

"Feng-chan!" he exclaimed, clapping his hands together. "Ryu-kun!"

As he looked out at the mers, a strange look entered into his eyes as he realized ... he was just about as tall as they were. "Whoa ..."



"Yes," Shael replied warmly to Kara's question. "He's hand-carved just about everything in there ... if you'd like, we can take you on a bit of a tour after lunch and show you, it really is quite beautiful."

"Ada's spoiled us," Adonai chuckled. "He and Mother both. Mother's already got all sorts of ... curtains, bedspreads, sheets ... more than we could ever use, I'm sure. None of it will be going into the house until it's ready, of course. At the moment it's mostly all being stored in one of the extra bedrooms at Aliya and Amdir's house."

"And the ranch hands have been helping, too," Shael added. "They helped with the wall-raising, so once the outside walls were built, they were put up in just one day. It was pretty amazing."

"As for the glass for the windows," Adonai winked at Lin, "we have two choices. We could have them delivered from the city - which would take a long time, and they might not even arrive in one piece - or we could ask Haradhel to make them for us. I'm sure Ahren would love that, he could learn to make glass then, too."